.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 288 129
Rank change year-on-year -23 -159 +35
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 452 413 1,869
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.06% 2.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.72% 5.37% 11.00%
Number of salaries quoted 422 356 1,774
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,904 7,689 16,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.71% 19.66% 20.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5,964 5,726 14,176
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,188 £51,250 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 7 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -49 116 £55,000 -8.33% 48
London -56 85 £82,500 +3.13% 62
South East -9 74 £60,000 +14.29% 46
Midlands -2 70 £65,000 +23.81% 27
North West -14 66 £55,000 -8.33% 25
South West -27 52 £52,500 -22.22% 16
East of England +10 48 £90,000 +71.43% 26
East Midlands +2 48 £65,000 +23.81% 11
North East -12 31 £65,000 +44.44% 9
West Midlands -34 22 £60,000 +1.69% 16
Yorkshire -70 19 £55,000 -8.33% 15
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.55%) IIS
3 2 (0.44%) CMS
4 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 286 (63.27%) Azure
2 82 (18.14%) AWS
3 78 (17.26%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (10.40%) SaaS
5 45 (9.96%) Azure Logic Apps
6 44 (9.73%) Serverless
7 40 (8.85%) GitHub
7 40 (8.85%) Power Platform
8 23 (5.09%) Power Automate
8 23 (5.09%) PowerApps
9 22 (4.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (4.65%) Azure AI
10 21 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (4.42%) Azure Functions
12 19 (4.20%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (4.20%) Azure Monitor
12 19 (4.20%) Azure Service Bus
12 19 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (4.20%) OneDrive
13 18 (3.98%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.11%) Internet
2 2 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.22%) AMQP
3 1 (0.22%) Firewall
3 1 (0.22%) HTTP
3 1 (0.22%) Modbus
3 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (33.41%) SQL Server
2 97 (21.46%) Azure SQL Database
3 58 (12.83%) MongoDB
4 35 (7.74%) Power BI
5 27 (5.97%) NoSQL
6 21 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
7 19 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (2.65%) MySQL
9 10 (2.21%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.55%) Redis
10 7 (1.55%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.44%) GIS
11 2 (0.44%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.22%) NonStop SQL
12 1 (0.22%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 45 (9.96%) Git
2 8 (1.77%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.33%) JIRA
3 6 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.66%) NUnit
5 3 (0.66%) Vite
6 2 (0.44%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.44%) MSTest
6 2 (0.44%) webpack
7 1 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.22%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.22%) GitLab
7 1 (0.22%) Selenium
7 1 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 71 (15.71%) Finance
2 50 (11.06%) Social Skills
3 17 (3.76%) Games
4 14 (3.10%) Banking
5 11 (2.43%) Law
5 11 (2.43%) Retail
6 9 (1.99%) Advertising
6 9 (1.99%) Automotive
6 9 (1.99%) Front Office
7 8 (1.77%) Public Sector
8 7 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.33%) Marketing
10 5 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.11%) Legal
11 3 (0.66%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.44%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.44%) Back Office
12 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 332 (73.45%) Developer
2 170 (37.61%) .NET Developer
3 125 (27.65%) Senior
4 105 (23.23%) Software Developer
5 78 (17.26%) Senior Developer
6 73 (16.15%) C# Developer
7 54 (11.95%) Lead
8 53 (11.73%) C# .NET Developer
9 49 (10.84%) Full-Stack Developer
10 45 (9.96%) Software Engineer
11 30 (6.64%) Lead Developer
12 28 (6.19%) Senior Software Engineer
13 27 (5.97%) Senior Software Developer
14 26 (5.75%) .NET Software Developer
15 23 (5.09%) .NET Software Engineer
15 23 (5.09%) Applications Developer
16 21 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
16 21 (4.65%) Senior .NET Developer
17 20 (4.42%) Azure Developer
17 20 (4.42%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 452 (100.00%) .NET
2 167 (36.95%) ASP.NET
3 95 (21.02%) React
4 91 (20.13%) .NET Framework
5 85 (18.81%) ASP.NET Core
6 74 (16.37%) HTML
7 71 (15.71%) CSS
8 70 (15.49%) RESTful
9 69 (15.27%) Blazor
10 68 (15.04%) Entity Framework
11 54 (11.95%) Vue
12 53 (11.73%) AngularJS
13 39 (8.63%) Node.js
14 38 (8.41%) ASP.NET Web API
15 33 (7.30%) REST
16 28 (6.19%) JSON
17 25 (5.53%) ASP.NET MVC
18 21 (4.65%) Microsoft Graph
18 21 (4.65%) ML.NET
19 19 (4.20%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.86%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.31%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (3.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 13 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (2.65%) Sports Betting
6 11 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.43%) Hedge funds
6 11 (2.43%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.55%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.33%) 3D Graphics
9 6 (1.33%) Digital TV
9 6 (1.33%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.11%) Social Network
11 3 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.66%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.44%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.88%) VMS
2 7 (1.55%) Windows
3 5 (1.11%) Linux
4 2 (0.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (38.27%) Full-Stack Development
2 151 (33.41%) Agile
3 124 (27.43%) CI/CD
4 109 (24.12%) DevOps
5 106 (23.45%) Software Engineering
6 82 (18.14%) Microservices
7 59 (13.05%) MVC
8 56 (12.39%) Containerisation
9 50 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (10.40%) SDLC
11 41 (9.07%) Machine Learning
12 40 (8.85%) User Experience
13 38 (8.41%) OO
14 37 (8.19%) AI
14 37 (8.19%) Business Intelligence
14 37 (8.19%) Collaborative Culture
15 36 (7.96%) Clean Code
16 35 (7.74%) Analytics
16 35 (7.74%) Mentoring
17 32 (7.08%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 403 (89.16%) C#
2 215 (47.57%) SQL
3 131 (28.98%) JavaScript
4 82 (18.14%) TypeScript
5 39 (8.63%) PowerShell
6 17 (3.76%) Python
7 12 (2.65%) Kusto Query Language
7 12 (2.65%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.33%) Bash
9 4 (0.88%) Bicep
9 4 (0.88%) Java
10 3 (0.66%) PHP
11 2 (0.44%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.22%) C++
12 1 (0.22%) F#
Qualifications
1 33 (7.30%) Degree
2 15 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.99%) AWS Certification
3 9 (1.99%) Security Cleared
4 8 (1.77%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.88%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.44%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.10%) QA
2 6 (1.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.44%) GDPR
3 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.44%) ITGC
3 2 (0.44%) SLA
4 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 89 (19.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 77 (17.04%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.19%) Terraform
3 2 (0.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 169 (37.39%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.20%) Adobe
3 9 (1.99%) Facebook
3 9 (1.99%) Google
4 5 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (0.88%) Workday
5 4 (0.88%) YouTube
6 2 (0.44%) Apple
6 2 (0.44%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.44%) Foundry
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle
6 2 (0.44%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.44%) Sony
6 2 (0.44%) Yahoo!
7 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.22%) IBM
7 1 (0.22%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.22%) Reuters
7 1 (0.22%) WooCommerce